Blog Title: Leigh’s Diecast Diary

So Where Do We Find The Leigh’s Diary Advent Calendar Then?

24 days until Christmas! I can’t believe December has rolled round again so quickly. Minichamps have started the week off with their latest new delivery, with all the new releases in 1:43 scale. Continuing their impressive efforts with getting the 2008 F1 grid out, we now have David Coulthard’s Red Bull RB4 (DC28409) and Nico Rosberg’s Williams read more..

Leighs Diecast Diary Vidcast Episode 56

Welcome to the fifty-sixth Leigh’s Diary Vidcast, reviewing all the new diecast replicas that were released last week. As always, I’ve listed the products below that have been featured in this week’s vidcast. Keep the comments rolling in. You’ll need quicktime installed to view the video on this post. You can also view this podcast on read more..

Roll Up For GPL eBay Auctions, Now Live!

After Minichamps and Universal Hobbies, we received a 1:12 motorbike replica from a third different diecast manufacturer of the year today. That manufacturer is the Japanese company WIT’S, and this is the first subject that we have imported from them, so you will not find their replicas available from anyone else. This first bike is the read more..

Enough Twittering, Roll On The Diecast!!

Today we received the new Sun Star delivery. It had the latest 1:18 2007 Ford Focus WRC replicas on it; Marcus Gronholm from Finland (SS3923), Mikko Hirvonen from Japan (SS3924), Henning Solberg from Japan (SS3925), and Jose-Luis Companc from Argentina (SS3922). The other highlight was Sun Star’s second 1:12 Volkswagen subject, the Kombi in dove blue read more..

Red Bull Is The Next Team To Arrive

We received the new Minichamps delivery today. Mark Webber’s 1:43 2008 Red Bull RB4 (DC28410) wasn’t on the original monthly schedule, and we also received Minichamps’ next two 1:18 Bentleys; the Continental GTC in silver (PG139031), and the Continental Flying Spur in black (PG139462). We also received a new AUTOart delivery that contained a few new read more..

With The VAT Reduction In Place, How About Some Amalgam Gear?

As Amalgam’s 1:8 replica of Lewis Hamilton’s McLaren MP4/23 from the 2008 Monaco Grand Prix (AML834) comes close to selling out, they have now announced a new version of his championship clinching car from this year’s Brazilian Grand Prix (AML857). As you would expect, it will have the specific aerodynamic package from that race, including read more..

Diecast Gets Political!

You may have heard the Chancellor announce today that, from next Monday, the rate of VAT will be cut from 17.5% to 15%. Well, we thought, why wait until next Monday? So as of now all of our prices now reflect the new VAT rate, and you can take advantage of them straight away, without having read more..

Leighs Diecast Diary Vidcast Episode 55

Welcome to the fifty-fifth Leigh’s Diary Vidcast, reviewing all the new diecast replicas that were released last week. As always, I’ve listed the products below that have been featured in this week’s vidcast. Keep the comments rolling in. You’ll need quicktime installed to view the video on this post. You can also view this podcast on read more..

It’s The Final (Minichamps Release Schedule Of The Year) Countdown!

Today we received the Minichamps release schedule for the last three weeks of the year. The first week of it (so we will receive the stock the week after next), we will see Gary Paffett’s 1:43 2008 DTM Mercedes (P083707), and, finally, restocks of Minichamps plastic base display cases, both 1:18 car (AA90001) and 1:12 bike read more..

Let’s Talk IXO 09 Subjects..

Today IXO confirmed all of their 1:43 releases for the first five months of 2009. In the past we have concentrated on IXO’s Ferrari and Le Mans Winners collections, but now, as with Minichamps and Spark, we will be offering all of their 1:43s to pre-order. Our ‘New Announcements’ section currently has all of these read more..